The premiere of American Horror Story scored a 1.6 rating with adults 18-49, leading all cable for the night. South Park returned with a 1.5 adults 18-49 rating, which came in ahead of the 1.4 rating for game four of the Phillies-Cardinals NLDS matchup. Syfy's Ghost Hunters averaged a 0.9 rating, up a tenth versus last week. MTV's Real World fell hard, dropping 42% from last week's premiere to a 0.7 adults 18-49 rating. Mythbusters was steady with a 0.8 adults 18-49 rating. All that and more...

update: not in the table below but both episodes of TLC's Extreme Couponing averaged a 0.4 and 0.5 adults 18-49 rating in their respective airings and 855K, and 942K viewers.

Wednesday cable ratings (all Live+Same Day ratings):

Program

Net

Time

Viewers (000)

18-49 Rating

AMERICAN HORROR STORY

FX

10:00 PM

3184

1.6

SOUTH PARK

CMDY

10:00 PM

2941

1.5

MLB DIVISION SERIES

TBSC

6:00 PM

4507

1.4

MLB DIVISION SERIES

TBSC

9:30 PM

3615

1.2

STORAGE WARS

AEN

9:30 PM

2300

1.0

GHOST HUNTERS

SYFY

9:00 PM

1964

0.9

MYTHBUSTERS

DISC

9:00 PM

1844

0.8

DANCE MOMS

LIF

10:00 PM

1803

0.7

DAILY SHOW

CMDY

11:00 PM

1659

0.7

REAL WORLD XXVI

MTV

10:00 PM

1224

0.7

THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER

SPIKE

10:00 PM

1323

0.7

NICK SWARDSONS PRETEND

CMDY

10:30 PM

1329

0.7

AMERICAN HORROR STORY

FX

11:10 PM

1412

0.7

PARANORMAL WITNESS

SYFY

10:00 PM

1405

0.6

COLBERT REPORT

CMDY

11:31 PM

1309

0.6

OPERATION REPO

TRU

9:30 PM

1511

0.6

BLUE MOUNTAIN STATE

SPIKE

11:00 PM

871

0.5

PENN & TELLER TELL A LIE

DISC

10:00 PM

1259

0.5

BRAD MELTZERS DECODED

HIST

10:00 PM

1385

0.5

RETURN TO HALLOWEENTOWN

DSNY

8:30 PM

3140

0.5

PARDON THE INTERRUPTION

ESPN

5:30 PM

976

0.5

AROUND THE HORN

ESPN

5:00 PM

759

0.5

TOP CHEF JUST DESSERTS

BRVO

10:00 PM

981

0.5

ANCIENT ALIENS

HIST

9:00 PM

1450

0.4

NCIS: LOS ANGELES

USA

7:00 PM

2277

0.4

BEAR SWAMP RECOVERY

TRU

10:00 PM

1076

0.4

HALLOWEEN WARS

FOOD

8:00 PM

1024

0.4

FALLING SKIES

TNT

2:00 AM

841

0.3

We only receive the top 100 cable shows for adults 25-54 for the whole day from our source. If you don't see an original episode of a show here, it's because it wasn't in the top 100. If the show you're looking for isn't in the list, it doesn't mean it went down or even necessarily that it's lower than the shows in the list below, it just means we didn't see it.